The House of the Vampire

Count Dracula leaves Transylvania for London, and his story is pieced together from letters, diaries and press clippings until Van Helsing leads the hunt. Our own Project Aldus edition: the complete 1897 text, carefully typeset and easy to read on any screen.

Bram Stoker

A lonely girl in a Styrian castle takes in a beautiful, mysterious guest, and grows weaker as their friendship deepens. Our own Project Aldus edition of the 1872 novella that created the female vampire, twenty-five years before Dracula.

Sheridan Le Fanu

Sir Francis Varney stalks the Bannerworth family across more than 200 chapters of this Victorian penny dreadful. The complete edition of the serial that gave the vampire his fangs, his hypnotic stare and his tortured conscience.

James Malcolm Rymer

Harriet Brandt charms everyone at a Belgian seaside resort, yet the people closest to her waste away. Published the same year as Dracula, it imagines a vampire who drains others without fangs and without knowing it.

Florence Marryat

Rupert Sent Leger inherits a castle on the Adriatic and starts receiving night visits from a pale woman wrapped in a burial shroud. Stoker's later vampire mystery, told through letters and journals like Dracula.

Bram Stoker